Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-03-12
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The creamery AT Dell Rapids Is completed
Diana has been without hard coal for
month.
Carthage had a visit from W female tramp
asst week.
Toboggan slides from stable roofs arc com
mon around Blunt.
The Bismarck legislature has passed a go
pher tail bill.
An IS 600 Catholic church will be erected a
Yankton this year.
The poor Of Lake county cost az, SEQ In tn
last twelve months.
Woonsocket will enjoy a glass-ball shoot
ing match tomorrow.
Woonsocket aud Washington want to b
connected by telephone.
The city OF Plankinton will elothe its band
but not the drum major.
Bathgate farmers are puzzled az TO wher
seed oats are TO come from.
Cold water theories converted about fort
wine-biLbrrs Mt Dell Rapids.
The blizzard OF last week forced the Splnl
County News TO issue on wall paper.
The Hand county teachers association vii
hold n meeting at Miller Feb. % and 20.
A new postoniee has been established il
Potter county under the name OF Potter,
On the 2Sth OF February, 1856, farmers In
Yankton county were sowing wheat.
A lodge of Select Knights Legion viii be
Instituted at Deadwood on the eth inst.
The Y. NJ. G. A. Of Huron has started a
publication called the Association Record.
The Plankinton STANDARD claims every great
Dakota storm is preceded by a south wind.
The city council Of Canton has passed an
ordinance establishing the Office OF city
weigher.
The farmers of st. Lawrence county are be-
ing urged to subscribe to a creamery enter
prise.
The railroad has knocked the profit out OF
the stage line between tie Black Hills and
Cheyenne.
Normal students at Madison are trying TO
rise TO eminenee through the organization Of
a brass band.
The Keystone Bachelors club is busted.
Everything but the minute book has married.
Too many billiards..
The transactions OF the Sioux Falls clear
lDR nDlN LJlG luOllh VI Iiblh val diliOhht-
ed to 1852, Gs5.
Cattle are suffering intensely in Dicky
county on account Of the snow and the pro-
tracted cold weather.
The city council OF Sioux Falls has ordered
u lot of dynamite as a preventive against an
ice gorge this spring.
Rapid City people now cat Nebraska flour,
feed Nebraska hay and grain, and use Ne.
brasks butter, eggs and fowl.
In the absence Of smelter news at Rapid
City temperance rallies are becoming com
mon items from thst town.
Aurora county farmers are urged to form
an association for the purpose OF improving
the cattle Of the country,
The family OF J. K. Coleman, OF Worthwhile,
Sphinx county. nearly lost their lives by get
ting rough on rats In the biscuits eaten.
The success of tee temperance revival
started at Bismark will depend upon the
prompt adjournment Of the legislature.
II Is thought the present winter has yielded
the largest number OF cases Of death by
freezing than any in the history Of the terri
tory.
A genius by the name OF Smith at Biiou
Hills has figured out a net price of 3S16 cents
per bushel for his corn this winter, by feeding
IL TO igs.
Architect Dow, Of Sioux Falls, viii make
plans for several new Watertown blocks
among them the opera house, which will cost
about : 5000.
A At a-a lat xunaiy hnry~
ing the first building erected In the place
The James Valley bank hailding was also con.
svmed. Loss about 1880.
Deadwood Pioneer: One theory in regard
TO the mummies lately discovered In Dakots
Is that somebody has constructed an inter
osting and instructive lie OF huge dimensions.
A short-haired epidemic is raging among
the young ladies of Rapid City, and it Il
feared by the male fraternity that its spread
will absolutely wipe out the privilege OF
catching q long hair in a coat button as an
evidence OF the previous nights whereabouts.
The new iron bridge on the site OF the old
Barber bridge In Clay county, was finished by
the contractor last Friday and accepted by the
county commissioners. II is ranked as the
best structure in the bridge line I'm that Sec
tto1.
An owl was captured at Madison nearly
pure white IN color, that measured six feet
from Up TO tip OF It's wings. u is classified
with a species known as the Arctic owl, that
oniy yisits this latitude In the severest win
ers.
Judge Mcconnell has decided against an at.
tachment suit, hence Mrs. K. Olson's a. sign-
inert Mt DEVILS Lake holds good and the
creditors will all fare alike. The assignee,
Frank II. Prosser, invoices her property and
stock over exemptions and mortgages at $l7,-
600, and liabilities at sll, 1000.
The ten Hermosa citizens arrested on the
charge OF conspiracy for moving the setback of
a claim jumper of Of a contested claim on TO
n school section were all dismissed for want
OF evidence to convict. The prosecution is Of
the opinion that there was q second conspir-
acy formed for the purpose OF clearing the
accused. There seems 10 have been consid-
cradle claim jumping in that vicinity this
winter, and settlers have organized for the
purpoae OF quitting a stop to the practice.
Sever | weeks ago a party claiming to repre-
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